Antonyms for nourishment
ˈnɜr ɪʃ mənt, ˈnʌr-nour·ish·ment

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1. nourishment

   Food is, in the popular sense, whatever one eats in contradistinction to what one drinks. Thus, we speak of food and drink, of wholesome, unwholesome, or indigestible food; but in a more scientific sense whatever, when taken into the digestive organs, serves to build up structure or supply waste may be termed food; the word is extended to plants to signify whatever taken in any way into the organism serves similar purposes; thus, we speak of liquid food, plant food, etc.; in this wider sense food is closely synonymous with nutriment, nourishment, and sustenance. Diet refers to the quantity and quality of food habitually taken, with reference to preservation of health. Victuals is a plain, homely word for whatever may be eaten; we speak of choice viands, cold victuals. Nourishment and sustenance apply to whatever can be introduced into the system as a means of sustaining life; we say of a convalescent, he is taking nourishment. Nutriment and nutrition have more of scientific reference to the vitalizing principles of various foods; thus, wheat is said to contain a great amount of nutriment. Regimen considers food as taken by strict rule, but applies more widely to the whole ordering of life. Fare is a general word for all table supplies, good or bad; as, sumptuous fare; wretched fare. Feed, fodder, and provender are used only of the food of the lower animals, feed denoting anything consumed, but more commonly grain, fodder denoting hay, cornstalks, or the like, sometimes called "long feed;" provender is dry feed, whether grain or hay, straw, etc. Forage denotes any kind of food suitable for horses and cattle, primarily as obtained by a military force in scouring the country, especially an enemy's country.

   Synonyms:
   aliment, diet, fare, feed, fodder, food, forage, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, provender, regimen, sustenance, viands, victuals

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1. nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victualsnoun

   a source of materials to nourish the body

   Synonyms:
   sustentation, sustainment, victual, edible, nutrition, nutriment, pabulum, keep, viands, alimentation, upkeep, victuals, bread and butter, provender, feeding, support, eatable, aliment, provisions, sustenance, commissariat, living, maintenance, livelihood, comestible

2. nourishmentnoun

   the act of nourishing

   "her nourishment of the orphans saved many lives"

   Synonyms:
   alimentation, nutriment, aliment, sustenance, victuals, nutrition

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1. nourishmentnoun

   Synonyms:
   nutrition, food, nutriment

How to use nourishment in a sentence?

1. Huda Akil:

   Depriving people of that is physically depriving the brain from its nourishment.

2. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson:

   When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning.

3. Hugh Pitty:

   We have lost about 90 in the last three weeks, the young ones have been abandoned by their mums, who don't have enough nourishment to produce any milk.

4. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   For life we need three things only: nourishment, love, and peace.

5. Ardis Whitman:

   We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

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